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What LaTeX is trying to do with this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{floatflt}
\begin{document}

\begin{floatingtable}[r]{
\begin{tabular}{cc}
0 & 1 \\
1 & 0
\end{tabular}}
\end{floatingtable}

This is MWE.

\end{document}

I got

Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 9--10

and message disappears if I add \raggedright after \begin{document}. It does not make any difference if I add more words to "This is MWE." -paragraph or add few paragraphs more.

Troy
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Jori Mäntysalo
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    The warning disappears if I add \centering just after the opening brace: \begin{floatingtable}[r]{\centering... – egreg May 07 '13 at 09:42
  • Egreg, you are right. Thanks! However, I still don't understand what LaTeX is trying to strech without \centering. – Jori Mäntysalo May 07 '13 at 13:49
  • surely this is to be expected? the paragraph contains a short line of text (nowhere near width of the page), and the table is minute too. embedding the table in such a tiny paragraph does indeed produce a very empty line, just as the warning says. – wasteofspace May 07 '13 at 14:50
  • Wasteofspace, as I said, "It does not make any difference if I add more words to 'This is MWE.' -paragraph or add few paragraphs more." – Jori Mäntysalo May 07 '13 at 15:16
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    @wasteofspace The warning is there also when the text surrounding the inserted table is long; the Underfull \vbox is exactly the one built by \floatingtable. – egreg May 07 '13 at 15:24

1 Answers1

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There is no warning if \centering is issued before \begin{tabular}:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{floatflt,lipsum}
\begin{document}
\begin{floatingtable}[r]{%
\centering
\begin{tabular}{cc}
0 & 1 \\
1 & 0
\end{tabular}}
\end{floatingtable}

\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

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barbara beeton
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